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Security Camera Installation is backed by a brand trusted by organizations like the United States Department of the Treasury, General Motors and NASA. With an unheard of 3 year warranty and 100% free support that never expires.

We're extremely happy to help you set up your system and troubleshoot any issues. Our support hours are from 9AM-7PM Monday - Friday (EST) and we are available via chat, email, phones, and remote PC screen-sharing. You can reach us at 866-414-2553.

IP Cameras from our 2017 line (Vanguard and Executive series NVRs)

To the best of our knowledge, none of our devices appear to have any major cyber security concerns, however please always follow our cyber security best practices. As long as products or components are not discontinued, we will attempt to carry these older models until 2020, as to not strand customers who purchased previously.

On Aug 1, 2018, the US government passed a resolution, effective Aug 1, 2019, to prevent the federal government, and anyone else who is involved with national security, from making purchases of surveillance cameras originally manufactured in 4 specific factories in China, including the one we used from 2014 to 2017.

The government did not provide an explanation for the ban. This ban only affects federal projects.

Please use our new Admiral and Imperial IP camera and NVR lines, if you are shopping for a federal building or program, as our 2018 models are not affected by this federal use ban.

Technology is always marching forward. A NVR is a very powerful highly specialized machine where the video encoding is done via a specially designed processor chip. This allow it to be more cost effective and more efficient at a single task (in this case recording HD video) than a computer, which has a general purpose processor. General purpose processors are significantly more expensive and require significantly more power (and thus more cost) to record multiple HD streams at once, so the industry largely uses embedded systems.

One of the challenges with video surveillance hardware is that the features are built into the chipsets. This means that when you upgrade chipsets, you often have new products that don't plug-and-play with older devices.

***Compatibility***: If you are using our Vanguard NVRs, we strongly recommend keeping 2017 NVRs with 2017 cameras and 2018 cameras with 2018 NVRs.

Although, you can still use the Admiral Line of cameras by connecting the camera to a PoE switch on the network (the ONVIF method), they will not plug-and-play. Vanguard line cameras record using the H.264 codec and will not be able to utilize the new H.265 in the 2018 line. The vast majority of our Vanguard line cameras, should work with the POE ports on the new Admiral NVRs (so you won't always have to use a switch), but because of the new security protocols and differing languages between the lines, you will have to authenticate the Vanguard Line cameras on your network first, by using a POE switch, and you may have to upgrade firmware. In some cases, you may have to use the ONVIF method. Not all features between Vanguard and Imperial line cameras are compatible with each other. Because of this, we strongly recommend keeping 2017 NVRs with 2017 cameras and 2018 cameras with 2018 NVRs.

Cat5e (RJ45) Ethernet to Network
Standard 3-Prong Wall Plug
4 SCWEasyConnect ports on back for Plug and play SCW camera auto-configurationCameras can also connect via Cat5e to a POE Switch anywhere on your Network

Cat5e (RJ45) Ethernet to Network
Standard 3-Prong Wall Plug
8 SCWEasyConnect ports on back for Plug and play SCW camera auto-configurationCameras can also connect via Cat5e to a POE Switch anywhere on your Network